Friday, May 07, 2010

Stuff I speed-read in the 30 seconds or so it took me to post this blog May 3-7 2010

Prognostications On Business, BI And The Cloud


Aster Data, Dell Join For Analytics In The Cloud


Forrester: Beware of Oracle's unlimited license pacts


Researcher: Social networks shouldn't reuse private info
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/6371851/7006273/283885/0/


Adobe CEO Responds to Jobs' Flash Attack
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/993375/5553367/77200/0/


Steve Jobs' Thoughts Won't Shut Up the Flash Mob
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/993375/5553367/77215/0/


Data Mining With WEKA: Introduction and Regression
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-weka1/index.html
http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/ml/weka/


Twitter used more as news site than social network, researchers say


HP's Deal of the Century, Android's Short Life
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/69897.html


Oracle Adds Specializations To Bring Oracle, Sun VARs Closer


Microsoft sides with Apple: 'Future of the Web is HTML 5'


IBM buys data-integration vendor Cast Iron


Advice for Evaluating CRM Cloud Platforms
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/6376911/7006273/284216/0/

Review: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/6376911/7006273/284217/0/


MicroStrategy Jump-Start Enables Organizations to Build Business Intelligence Applications in Hours http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4249935&access=EH


SaaS Apps: The Apex of Customer Service
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/69908.html


BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE DATA GETS A WEB SERVICE TREATMENT
http://go.techtarget.com/r/11485556/2433922


Suggestions For Twitter Anywhere


SenSage Survey Findings Reveal Enterprise Security and Compliance Weaknesses http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4251513&access=EH


Tableau Software Helps Social Game Developer Zynga to Visualize Data http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4251729&access=EH


Big Box Teradata Takes an Outside-the-Box Approach to BI and DW


Making the Case for Agile BI


Old Thinking Does a Disservice to New Data Hubs


N.Y. bomb plot highlights limitations of data mining


Researcher: Social networks shouldn't reuse private info
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/6382183/7006276/284901/0/


Nari Kannan: Behavioral Analytics - Business Intelligence Over a TimeFrame and Actions


Mike Pascucci: Social Intranets Part III - Profiles


James Taylor: Decision Engines in Financial Services


IBM Buys Cast Iron Systems to Bolster Cloud Offerings


Performance Management Is a Business Process That Requires Dedicated Applications


Question of the week: What is business intelligence?


Well Begun is Half Done: Why Profiling Matters


IBM to build out hub for cloud of clouds with Cast Iron acquisition


Google TV: The Android 'Dragonpoint'?
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/999478/5553367/78015/0/


Startup Wants to Be R Alternative to IBM, SAS
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/999478/5553367/78034/0/


Morphlabs Launches Cloud Appliance


SugarCRM Gives Azure A Try


HEALTHY SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGEMENT CURBS RISKS, ADDS BUSINESS BENEFITS
http://go.techtarget.com/r/11494265/2433922


IBM BUYS CAST IRON FOR CLOUD COMPUTING INTEGRATION
http://go.techtarget.com/r/11494579/2433922


Every Twitterer Can Be a Pundit Now
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/69922.html


The 4 Es of Social Media Strategy


What’s Not BI? Oh, Don’t Get Me Started ... Oops Too Late ... Here Goes ...


MicroStrategy's In-memory Technology Significantly Improves Business Intelligence Performance http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4254239&access=EH


WANTED Technologies Releases New Human Capital Workflow Apps on its WANTED Analytics(TM) Apps Platform

http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4253681&access=EH


IBM Launches Research Effort to Build 360 Degree View of Factors Affecting Human Health http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4253201&access=EH


SQL Server 2008 R2 Released to IT Pros


IBM Acquires Cast Iron Systems


GARTNER: EFFECTIVE BI NEEDS PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT METRICS
http://go.techtarget.com/r/11504846/2433922


SAP's Plattner to renew pitch for in-memory databases


Is Moore's Law Really Dead? Or Just Misunderstood


Does Your CRM Vendor Actually Practice CRM?
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/69937.html


IBM's Cast Iron Metacloud Strategy
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/69935.html


Sales Forecasting: Analytics to the Rescue

http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/69940.html


Eight Database Consolidation Strategy Tips


Revolutionary R, An Interview with Revolution Analytics CEO Norman Nie – Part 2


BI Tools Struggle to Keep Up


Federated Data Models Can Accelerate Data Integration


Are You Prepared to Store All This Data?


The Debate About Automated Sentiment Analysis


Sentiment Analysis Feels Its Way Forward


Confluence of trends ups ante for improved IT governance to prevent costly business 'glitches'


IBM to build out hub for cloud of clouds with Cast Iron acquisition


Federated identity project on the horizon


Pentagon bringing advanced math concepts to battlefield tactics


Twitter Launches Embeddable Tweets